Earlier this month I wrote about a situation in Red Oak where police officers were being questioned for writing too many tickets.
It appears even the Dallas media is getting involved now. Fox News on Channel 4 ran a story last night and interviewed a couple council members who are pushing the issue.
A Fort Worth investigator has been brought in to investigate the issue and the Red Oak Police Chief and Deputy Chief have been placed on administrative leave.
Category: News & Pop Culture
Flyleaf to perform on Jimmy Kimmel
Flyleaf Performing on Jimmy Kimmel
Awesome – sad I missed this live. It’s Flyleaf from Belton and Temple, Texas on Jimmy Kimmel Live. Flyleaf bass player Pat Seals went to UMHB the same time I did. I didn’t get to hang with him too often but he was always a fun guy to be around. His dad was a pretty cool art prof too.
You never know what you’ll find on YouTube
So I was browsing YouTube this morning and came across a video from WaxahachieJournal.com.
I’m not familiar with all the names involved, but Jennifer Howell was a stringer for the WDL and worked for the Waxahachie Now magazine as recent as their last edition.
Not sure if she’s doing both now or what but she’s listed as one of the publishers and the executive editor.
I can easily see more of these popping up around the country/world as people go to the web to get their news.
The site is mainly feature oriented but they’re taking advantage of things like YouTube to put video on their website for free. Very smart.
Re: Amazing Grace
More perspectives on Amazing Grave at RelevantMagazine.com:
John Newton laments his past as a slave trader, and throughout the film he becomes emotional at the thought of that past as he struggles with visions of past victims. However, it is evident by the film’s end that he finds peace in the forgiveness he has received from the only source that matters to him. “Although my memory’s fading,†he tells Wilberforce, “I remember two things very clearly: I’m a great sinner, and Christ is a great Savior.â€
Another writer asks:
While I was at a Wilberforce conference last month, a speaker made these two great objects personal by posing this question: “What would you be willing to commit 20 years of your life to doing?†After all, that’s what Wilberforce did. He dedicated 20 years in single-minded pursuit of the abolishment of the slave trade. In fact, if we’re to be completely accurate, it cost him 47 years, since an additional 27 were required to eradicate African slavery from every British colony completely. He received news of this final victory just three short days before his death.
What would you give 20 years of your life to?
Amazing Grace review
Another blogger at The Beatitudes Society gave a review of the movie Amazing Grace this week.
Check it out and be sure and check out the movie before its out of theaters.
Update: Purchase the DVD from Amazon.
Gunshots rang out like a bell
“I grabbed my nine all I heard was shells – falling on the concrete real fast…”
Wait – it’s not Vanilla Ice. It’s Dolph Lundgren. He’s shooting a movie in my backyard the last week or so and will likely be shooting it around Waxahachie till May at least.
And when I say shooting in my backyard – that’s about exactly where they are.
And today they had an apparent gun fight on Franklin, less than half a block from my crib in downtown Waxahachie.
Pretty cool. I really think someone may have died. Ha.
So who’s Dolph Lundgren you may ask?
Well…
Lundgren attended the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. He received a master’s degree in chemical engineering from the University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, in 1982, and the next year was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to MIT. In New York City he met drama coach Warren Robertson and decided to try his luck as an actor in action movies. Lundgren has a second-degree black belt in karate and is aiming for his third-degree black belt.
Dolph’s motion picture debut came in the James Bond feature “A View to a Kill” in 1985. However, it was his performance in “Rocky IV” later that year that definitely got him noticed. After a 9-month audition process among 5,000 hopefuls, he was cast opposite writer-director Sylvester Stallone, as his Russian opponent, Ivan Drago. Following the success of “Rocky IV”, Lundgren moved to Los Angeles and has since starred in more than thirty feature films. Lundgren portrayed the classic action-heroic lead in such films as Gary Goddard’s “Masters of the Universe”, “Showdown in Little Tokyo” co-starring Brandon Lee, and “Blackjack” by Hong-Kong action legend John Woo.
Two of his “great” quotes from Rocky IV: “If he dies, he dies” and “I must break you.”
Matt said he tried to walk over and get a couple pics of Lundgren today but the zoom on his camera wasn’t strong enough.
They rented a car lot from a friend of mine last week and ransacked his office. He said he thinks they shot scenes from a sexual assault in his office.
From Lundgren’s website:
It’s a modern day western set on an Indian Reservation. Instead of horses, we’ve got motor bikes. I play a mysterious stranger who rides into a small town for the funeral of a Native American friend.
The stranger ends up helping an Indian family against the local thugs, who smuggle drugs and runs the small town.
Soon it becomes clear that the stranger is in town for another reason. As in all westerns, it comes down to revenge and redemption at the end of a gun barrel…
Some other folks involved include “local boy” Joe Martin who I’m not sure if he plays a role in the movie or not, but I do believe he’s providing a few bikes at least. I’ve seen his trailer downtown a couple times now. Joe Martin, from Martin Bros. Bikes in Duncanville, has worked on at least a project or two with my buddy Jose from encounter. Although, truth be known, Jose said that his involvement in the project was minimal as he pretty much just sat and watched as Martin did his work.
Sorry I had to be sure and add this from Master of the Universe:
